Poor Harry Reid. He keeps making commercials for his opponents in the next election. Or you could title this “Things I Wish I had Never Said.”

Not getting worse has become the new success. The national unemployment rate remained constant in February, but employers shed a net 36,000 jobs.

The administration made encouraging noises. President Obama was visiting an Arlington, VA small business to speak on “clean energy and job creation.” The “severe storms all along the East Coast are estimated to have had a depressing effect on the numbers,” Obama said. Others said that jobs should have ticked up a little because of all the people hired to deal with the snow.

The President remains convinced that “clean energy” is just the thing, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.